Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 2

Ulysses had been looking at that very spot only just before; and it appeared to him that the plant had burst into full flower the instant when Quicksilver touched it with his fingers.

Who acts: Ulysses, it, Quicksilver · What happens: look, appear, burst, touch · To what, where: Ulysses, plant, full flower

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ulysses, it, Quicksilver), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ulysses	Ulysses	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 looking	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 looking	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 looking	aux
4	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 spot	case
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 spot	det
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 spot	advmod
8	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looking	obl
9	only	only	ADV	_	11 before	advmod
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 before	advmod
11	before	before	ADV	_	8 spot	advmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 appeared	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 appeared	cc
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 appeared	nsubj
15	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 looking	parataxis
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 appeared	obl
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 burst	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 plant	det
20	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 burst	nsubj:pass
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 burst	aux
22	burst	burst	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 appeared	advcl
23	into	into	ADP	_	25 flower	case
24	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 flower	amod
25	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 burst	obl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 instant	det
27	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 burst	obl:unmarked
28	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	30 touched	advmod
29	Quicksilver	quicksilver	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 touched	nsubj
30	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 burst	advcl
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 touched	obj
32	with	with	ADP	_	34 fingers	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 fingers	nmod:poss
34	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 touched	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 looking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	past · perfect · progressive	Ulysses				at that spot	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at spot=Theme
2	appear	past	it		Ulysses			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	burst	past · perfect · passive		the plant		full flower	the instant obl:unmarked	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
4	touch	past	Quicksilver	plant			with Quicksilver's fingers	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Theme with finger=Instrument

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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